Word: fusion
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Most cold fusion experiments around the world also yielded negative results, and the repeated reports of failure fueled speculation that Pons and Fleischmann's discovery was closer to science fiction than science...
Chemists one week later defended their colleagues and criticized the physicists for their attacks on Pons and Fleischmann. The resulting rift between physicists and chemists further clouded the cold fusion debate...
...conference in Los Alamos, N.M., two weeks ago, a group of scientists from both fields seemed to resolve the scientific schism, concluding that Pons and Fleischmann's research was flawed and that the heat they found was produced by a chemical reaction--not fusion...
...scientists at the conference also supported the cold fusion findings of Brigham Young University professor Steven Jones, who detected neutron emission in small quantities. That discovery suggests that there are minute amounts of fusion occurring inside the palladium, a discovery which has few commercial applications but is of great scientific interest...
...looking at the cold fusion reaction, in particular the Brigham Young phenomenon rather than that other one," Jones said. "That is, we'll be looking for neutrons rather than heat...